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After graduating from the Trinity School of Texas in Longview, Ben set his sights on a childhood dream of becoming a veterinarian. He enrolled in Texas A&M University in the fall of '97, majoring in Biomedical Science while also enlisting in the university's famed Corps of Cadets (Squadron 13). After a very poor, yet memorable, academic showing his first semester at A&M, paired with a newly found interest in forensic insect studies, Ben changed directions, said goodbye to ROTC, and switched his major to Entomology.

Graduating in December of 2000 and unsure exactly where his path was leading, Ben went back home to east Texas for a semester and drove a Mack truck for his dad's excavation business. This allowed ample time for rethinking his professional career, while rediscovering what real work was all about. In the summer of 2001, Ben enrolled in graduate school at Texas A&M pursuing his master's degree in Civil and Urban Forensic Entomology. A year and a half into his graduate studies and teaching fellowship found Ben burnt out in his formal educational journey. After a late night filled with procrastination of writing an insect physiology term paper, Ben stumbled upon the website of South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, where you could actually major in commercial music performance!

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